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Doctor says Tabrez Ansari could have died of cardiac arrest, police maintain mob lynching not cause of death: Reports

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Doctor says Tabrez Ansari could have died of cardiac arrest, police maintain mob lynching not cause of death: Reports

The investigation team set up by the district administration to inquire into the matter of Tabrez Ansari’s death has concluded that he could have died as a consequence of stress-induced cardiac arrest, The New Indian Express has reported. Tabrez Ansari was allegedly brutally beaten by a mob in Jharkhand on the 18th June on the accusation of theft. He had died on 22nd in police custody.

The team constituted by the Deputy Commissioner which comprises of the SDO, District Superintendent of Police (DSP) and the civil doctor submitted its report on Tuesday. Civil Surgeon Dr AN Ray was quoted by TNIE as saying, “Stress-induced cardiac arrest could have led to the sudden death of Ansari since no internal injury was found during his post mortem examination”.

“Barring some cut marks on his head, hands and legs, no deep injury was found on the body of Tabrez Ansari which might have led to his death. In the video footage obtained from the jail, he was seen walking around and talking to other jailed persons”, police said as per the report.

“On June 22, after completing his ablutions, Ansari demanded drinking water. He drank it and then complained of dizziness and fainted. He was immediately rushed to the Sadar Hospital where he was put on oxygen but could not be saved,” said the Civil Surgeon. However, Dr Ray said in his report to the sub-divisional magistrate that the detailed forensic report which will be available in 2 weeks time will help pinpoint the actual reason.

The Police too have maintained that Ansari did not die due to mob lynching, according to a report on Jagran. The SP of Saraikela has said that many misleading videos are being circulated on the matter in order to vitiate the atmosphere. He said that people who are spreading rumours won’t be spared as well.

According to the Police, people had gotten into a fight with Ansari on 18th June who was accused of trying to steal a bike. After police got information about the same, they reached the spot and rescued him. Police had also recovered the stolen bike and some other items. The Police gave him first aid, subjected him to a medical examination and then submitted the report to the Court, only then he was sent to jail. Three days later, his health deteriorated and he died. Therefore, the Police says it is wrong to claim he died due to mob lynching.

Comments of both the doctor and police suggest that the mob attack may not be the result of Ansari’s death, but that will be confirmed after the detail forensic reports become available.

In ‘respect’ and ‘honour’ of Rahul Gandhi, Congress office bearers resign en masse

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In ‘respect’ and ‘honour’ of Rahul Gandhi, Congress office bearers resign en masse

A large number of Congress functionaries and office bearers have reportedly tendered mass resignations on Thursday in ‘honour’ and ‘respect’ of their president Rahul Gandhi. The signatories on the resignation include AICC- PCC chiefs, Working Presidents, Secretaries, Youth Congress leaders and Mahila Congress office bearers.


A mass resignation letter is doing the rounds on the Internet in which about 140 Congress office bearers have signed the resignation letter which read- “I would like to immediately resign from my post in respect and honour of Rahul Gandhi.”

Following a humiliating defeat in the recently concluded 17th Lok Sabha elections, in which Congress could manage to win a paltry 53 Lok Sabha seats, Congress president Rahul Gandhi owned up the responsibility of the poll debacle and offered his resignation from the post of Congress Presidency.

However, the Congress Working Committee (CWC) had unanimously rejected his resignation and exhorted him to continue as the party’s chief. But, Rahul Gandhi has reportedly been adamant on his resignation from the post and has asked party leaders to find many an appropriated candidate for the position.

Many Rahul Gandhi supporters within the party have now proffered to resign amidst his insistence on resigning from the post of Congress presidency. Congress leader Prakash Joshi said why should Rahul Gandhi alone be held responsible for the party’s poll rout and emphasised that those responsible for ‘calling the shots’ from behind should be held responsible and Rahul Gandhi be given a free rein to restructure the party.


Recently, Congress president Rahul Gandhi had expressed his displeasure that no other Congress leaders were ready to take the responsibility of the Lok Sabha poll debacle. Responding to the request made by the Haryana state coordination committee to reconsider the resignation, Rahul told the leaders, “I have resigned after taking full responsibility and ensuring accountability for the party’s defeat in the Lok Sabha elections. I cannot ask others to resign too. It is up to them if they want to take responsibility.”

Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha goes on an abusive spree against people who criticize his film Article 15

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Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha goes on an abusive spree against people who criticize his film Article 15

Filmmaker Anubhav Sinha, whose propaganda film Article 15 which shamelessly attempts to further enforce the old shackles of caste identities, was released today hasn’t taken the criticism to his film that well.

While the movie claims to have been inspired from ‘true incidents’, the trailer made it clear that it was based on the infamous Badaun hanging case where two young girls were murdered in a village in UP.

In its attempt to be ‘inspired’ from the Badaun case, the movie seems to have taken wide liberties with facts. The case got wide attention in national and international media, bringing shame for the then Akhilesh Yadav government in UP because it was highlighted as a case of upper caste atrocity against Dalits.

The accused were named Pappu Yadav, Avadhesh Yadav, Urvesh Yadav, Chhatrapal Yadav and Sarvesh Yadav. Chhatrapal and Sarvesh were policemen. The police department was accused of showing leniency to the accused in the case due to political pressure from the Samajwadi Party which was favouring the Yadavs. Even the police investigation was severely criticised and the people had demanded a CBI inquiry.

The CBI had later stated that their probe indicates that the two girls, aged 14 and 15, had committed suicide and they were neither raped or murdered. The five accused were all given a clean chit.

However, Sinha has made great efforts in his movie to take a widely publicised crime and paint it in colours of casteism that suits his political narrative. In the trailer one can see the invisible ‘Mahant ji’ (a probable sly at Yogi Adityanath) who is a Brahmin, is painted as the all-powerful root of evil in the movie. Also, the over-emphasis of ‘upper castes’ and Brahmins being the sole cause of all atrocities seems to be the central theme in the movie.

The attempt to pick a highly publicised crime and paint it in anti-Brahmin, anti-upper caste colours is unfair, even in the name of artistic liberties. The Badaun case had no brahmin angle. Changing the ethnicities and identities of a highly publicised crime only reeks of narrow political agenda, an agenda which is dangerously partial and divisive.

When audience (usually filmmakers make the moral high ground and say how they have made the film for its audience), started questioning Sinha on the microblogging site Twitter, he lost his cool and started abusing those who criticised his film.


Ravi Kumar on his part had politely asked Sinha to remove the part that the film was inspired from true events considering he has taken creative liberties. However, Sinha thought a response to this polite criticism is the ‘F-word’.


The abuses to critics of his film don’t seem to be stopping.


Apparently, only praises for his propaganda make it to the category of ‘intelligent tweets’.


Prior to the release of his another propaganda film ‘Mulk’, Sinha who had earlier made the embarrassment called Ra.One, had claimed that terrorism was not started by Muslims. He was also caught requesting Pakistanis to watch his ‘Mulk’ movie illegally. Sinha, whose own shady money laundering attempts were recently highlighted seems to be on a mission to improving his public image by toeing ‘liberal’ propaganda. The incessant usage of F-word surely helps.

Move over Narendra Modi, there is a new ‘hated figure’ in ‘Left Liberal’ town

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Move over Narendra Modi, there is a new ‘hated figure’ in ‘Left Liberal’ town

Move over Narendra Modi as there is a new ‘hated figure’ in the town who is earning the wrath of ‘Liberals’ these days. He has been able to achieve this distinction through his sheer hard work and unparalleled patriotism. He is none other than the answer to the questions all the cricket fans were asking after Sachin’s retirement – Virat Kohli.

He always attracted a lot of criticism for his on-field aggression and in-your-face attitude. Sure, some of the criticism was warranted given his tendency to resort to the choicest of abuses on the cricket field but ask any Delhi-ite and he would not think much of it as that is the kind of words a person grows up within Delhi (This is not to demean Delhi or to justify his actions but stating the reality as it is).

But the level of criticism and ‘hate’ against him has grown exponential with the performance of the Indian team in recent years under his leadership. ‘Hatred’ towards him increased many folds when he asked an Indian cricket fan to leave the country if he does not support the Indian team. This was at the time when the Nationalists were asserting themselves unashamedly buoyed by the dynamic leadership of Narendra Modi and sounds of ‘leave the country’ were common for those who hated him or were demonizing India due to their rabid hate.

He was brutally criticized for leading the Indian team on the field with ‘camouflage caps‘ to support Indian Armed forces after the dastardly Pulwama terror attack. This was at the time of the general elections in India which the ‘Left Liberals’ had made a referendum on the ‘Idea of India’ (whatever that is) and this act of his was seen as a betrayal of that idea which they were fighting for. Since then, the ‘Left Liberals’ have renounced the Indian cricket team completely and are seen cheering for the other side whenever India plays, and are seen claiming a moral victory for the opposition whenever Indian team wins, which has become almost an everyday occurrence.

Virat Kohli and the Indian team are chided for the lack of sportsman spirit which these people mistake for being weak and defeat. They hide their faces in the sand like an ostrich when Virat Kohli scolds the Indian fans for booing Steven Smith or when he gifts his bat to Mohammed Amir to show his support for the beleaguered player who was making a comeback after the five-year ban, the acts of true sportsman spirit.

These people equate sportsman spirit with weakness, mediocrity and lack of fight which inevitably leads to more defeats than wins. That is what these people want. They rue the era of ‘classic’ cricket when there was an emotional connect with the Indian team which used to invariably get defeated despite the presence of some of the legends of the game. They hate this ‘cold-hearted’ Indian team which brings back the memories of the Australian team of the late 90s and early 2000s.

They are unable to connect with this ‘new Indian’ team which is ruthless in its approach when it comes to winning. This new Indian team is a reflection of the ‘Naya India’ which PM Narendra Modi keeps referring to, which is hungry for success and does not shy away from hard work to achieve that.

This is the ‘new Indian’ team which does not shy away from dropping performing players to send out a clear message regarding the importance of fitness. This fitness revolution led by the leader himself at the top has changed the fortune of the team in recent years (sounds like the case with the country in general, where development revolution led by the leader of the country has changed the fortune of the country in recent years).

It was not like fitness was not on Indian team’s captain’s minds before Virat Kohli. Dhoni had asked for fitter players in limited overs cricket as far back as in 2008. He was often criticized for nudging the senior players out of the team due to fitness issues. But Virat Kohli has taken it to a different level which Indian cricket fans had never seen before. He pushed the legend himself, Dhoni, to get fitter in last few years after his retirement from Test cricket and the results are for everyone to see with him giving a run for money to any young wicket-keeper with his performances even at a ripe age of 37.

They hate him because he has been able to instil a ‘winning’ mindset in the team which is unlikely to change for the foreseeable future whether or not he is at the helm of the affairs or not. He does not accept mediocrity and stumps everyone with his commitment, achievements and passion even after all these years.

The ‘Left Liberals’ ecosystem has promoted mediocrity over the years and who hate India and its achievements in any form. They want India to lose just because Indian win would fan the feelings of ‘toxic hyper-nationalism‘ according to them. They are simply unable to accept the fact that one man (Narendra Modi) has been able to make them irrelevant, a task that seemed impossible just till a decade back, and they seem to have no answer to his sheer hard work, determination, passion and vision.

And Virat Kohli seems to be showing the similar traits on the cricketing field while taking Indian cricket team in the same direction. Both are unabashedly patriotic, a trait enough for these people to hate them. Just like Narendra Modi seem unaffected and even buoyed by their ‘hatred’, Virat Kohli also seems to be paying no attention to these ‘haters’ – which frustrates them further and leads to even more ‘hate’. They have embroiled themselves in this vicious circle.

With the general election win in 2019 for Narendra Modi and India doing reasonably well under Virat Kohli, there seems to be no light at the end of the tunnel for these habitual ‘haters’.

Vedanta claims that Chinese companies funded anti-Sterlite protests in order to capture Indian copper market

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Vedanta claims that Chinese companies funded anti-Sterlite protests in order to capture Indian copper market

On Thursday, senior counsel for Vedanta, C Aryama Sundaram, told the Madras High Court that Chinese companies had funded the anti-Sterlite protests resulting in the shutting down of its copper smelter unit in SIPCOT at Thoothukudi. He alleged that these Chinese companies were interested in capturing the Indian copper market.

Sundaram made these allegations while pushing Vedanta’s plea challenging the Tamil Nadu government’s order shutting down its copper smelting unit in Tuticorin.

He told the division bench, “these companies promoted and funded the agitations and protests against Sterlite. India’s import bill for copper is $2 billion, the demand was being met by Sterlite earlier”.

He added that Sterlite had been supplying nearly 38% of India’s copper demand. After the plant was forced to close, this demand was met by foreign companies.

Sundaram later pointed out that in the SIPCOT industrial complex, there were 63 companies. This included 10 red category companies that handled hazardous material. Yet, the Sterlite plant is blamed for anything that goes wrong and the company has succeeded despite that.

He had also expressed his doubt on how anti-Sterlite protesters manage to gather 20,000 people. Sundaram said that the plant was closed by the government after the death of 13 people. Yet, in its pleadings in the court, the government claims environmental pollution as the cause.

He also pointed out that the CBI, which was conducting the probe into the firing, till now hasn’t called the company for an enquiry. Despite that, the company is punished with a closure order.

Yesterday, Vedanta had told the Madras High Court that NGOs and activists with vested interests had orchestrated the anti-Sterlite protests. The anti-Sterlite protest led to police firing killing 13 protesters. This led to the closure of the plant in May 2018.

The NGT has proven that the company was following all environmental norms and directed the government to reopen it. However, the Madras High Court intervened and rolled back the order to reopen the plant.

“TMC has become Total Muslim Congress”, West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh

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“TMC has become Total Muslim Congress”, West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh

West Bengal BJP chief Dilip Ghosh has said that Trinamool Congress has become Total Muslim Congress. Reacting to the Mamata Banerjee’s West Bengal government’s directive to build dining halls for mid-day meals in schools having 70% or more minority students, Ghosh said that TMC is a by-product of minority appeasement politics started by Congress.

Talking to India Today, Dilip Ghosh said, “TMC has become Total Muslim Congress, they do politics by dividing in the name of religion for vote. Partition also had happened due to this reason.” He said that it is very wrong to bring difference in children in the name of religion, saying it is dangerous for the country. They talk about Hind Muslim unity, but if they are separated from childhood on the basis of religion, how can it happen?

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The West Bengal government has decided to construct dining halls in schools for the mid-day meal scheme, but in only those schools having 70% or more minority students. BJP has strongly objected to this religion-based decision, calling it appeasement politics.

However, the WB government has said that there will no discrimination in the dining halls on the basis of schools. All schools in a school where such halls will be constructed will be able to use it for having their mid-day meal. The govt said that as the halls are being constructed using funds from minority affairs ministry, hence it is being implemented in schools having a sizable population of minority students. The state government also said that it was done as per guidelines of the central government.

Our stance has not changed, Article 370 is a temporary provision: Home Minister Amit Shah in Lok Sabha

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Our stance has not changed, Article 370 is a temporary provision: Home Minister Amit Shah in Lok Sabha

Union Home Minister Amit Shah, during his speech in the Lower House of the Parliament, made it clear that Article 370 is only a temporary provision and that there has been no change in the stance of the party on the issue.


Shah said, “Our stance on Jammu and Kashmir has and will remain constant. There has been no change in our position on Article 370. We have always maintained that Article 370 is only a temporary provision in our Constitution.”

The Home Minister’s statement is significant as there are great expectations from him with regards to the instability in Kashmir. People have been subjecting every statement and every comment of his to great scrutiny. Under such circumstances, his reiteration of the stance that Article 370 is a temporary provision is likely to ruffle many feathers and make a lot of politicians in Kashmir extremely uncomfortable.

During the speech in the Parliament, he also attacked Jawaharlal Nehru and blamed the Congress party for the instability in Kashmir. Taking a jibe at Congress MP Manish Tewari, who had claimed that situation in J&K was better under Congress government, Shah asserted that the enduring problem of Jammu and Kashmir is a legacy of the monumental mistakes made by then PM Jawaharlal Nehru.

Amit Shah has moved the J&K Reservation (Amendment Bill) in the Lok Sabha today. The Jammu and Kashmir Reservation (Amendment) Bill, 2019 amends the Jammu and Kashmir Reservation Act, 2004, which provides for reservation in appointment and admission in professional institutions for persons belonging to Scheduled Castes, Scheduled Tribes, and socially and educationally backward classes. The Bill was passed by the Lok Sabha.

In the winter of his public life, why can’t Dr Manmohan Singh engage his own staff rather than being petulant?

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In the winter of his public life, why can’t Dr Manmohan Singh engage his own staff rather than being petulant?

The winter of public life is setting upon Dr Manmohan Singh.  By all accounts, it is doing no good to his feeble frame. Or self-esteem, never mind it wasn’t on the rack under the canopy of the Gandhis in the first place.

The 87-year-old former Prime Minister, twice over, is battling on many fronts and it isn’t just the aftereffects of multiple cardiac bypass surgeries he has had to endure on self. He seems to have been let down by his own women and men, or mother-son duo if you may, though the news doing public rounds is his anger the ruling dispensation of BJP at the Centre.

The latest bit is Dr Singh’s refusal to accept the trimmed numbers of his personal staff to five—two each personal assistants and peons and one lower-division clerk—against the 14 he perceives is his right. Dr Singh has been pretty dogged in pursuing the matter and given the number of letters he has shot across to PMO, one could only say that his one lower-division clerk is worth every single penny.

It’s a cry in the wilderness for nothing. A man who was used to 500 persons crowding PMO for a decade, is now left with just five. It’s a cut as drastic as the surgical strike he did on the state-command economy in the 90s. The setback is as much functional as psychological. You need translators and stenographers; Photostat operators and dispatch riders, drivers, carpenters and even cook!  There are weekly offs, one or two on leave due to marriage in the neighbourhood, and who pays for overtime in case the assistant is asked to stay back for the second shift?

There are bound to be letters and invitations to a man who once presided over the destiny of 1.30 billion people, even if by remote.  Phones must be ringing incessantly. Doorbells being pressed all so often. A posse of doctors and nurses pacing up and down the hall. Rent-a-quote journalists from The Indian Express and The Hindu spread on the couches of the living room. It’s a fair bit of nuisance.

A prime minister leaving his office is still worth the rank of a cabinet minister, says the rulebook. But it’s only for five years after he demits his office. It’s Modi’s second term now. Privileges aren’t for life, you see.

Can’t Dr Singh engage his own staff? But then he is no longer a Prime Minister drawing a salary of Rs 1.6 lakhs. He is no longer a Member of Parliament from Rajya Sabha too which is worth a lakh of rupees every month. (How he must be cursing the mother-son duo of Sonia and Rahul Gandhi who moved heavens to get an Ahmed Patel elected to Rajya Sabha but didn’t twitch an eyebrow in dumping Dr Singh’s candidature).

For many years, he drove Maruti 800. If Khushwant Singh’s book, “Absolute Khuswant” isn’t as fake as his Sikh history, Dr Singh once borrowed Rs 2 lakh from him to fight the 1991 Lok Sabha elections. Dr Singh’s progenies are academicians like him. Sonia and Rahul Gandhi are saving for the rainy days. Besides, what could you expect from a man who publicly tore your policy papers in front of whirring cameras? Or a Congress who saw him fit for no role during the 2019 General Elections even though the party was fighting for its’ life?

Modi doesn’t look a man who would junk the rulebook. On his person too, Modi has cash of only Rs 38,750 even though the fixed deposit is Rs 1.27 crores (as per the details in his 2019 Poll affidavit). How could the present PM help an ex-PM? Could Dr Singh appeal to former vice-president Hamid Ansari and his Muslim brethren given how charitable he was in declaring Muslims to have the first right on India’s resources? Could Capt. Amrinder Singh listen to the wails of a fellow Sikh and override his seething anger against the High Command who have unleashed a barking Navjot Singh Sidhu on his coattails?

Dr Singh has practically come to an end to his public life. Neither his own men and women want him, nor does the ruling dispensation have an affinity for him. The public base for Dr Singh, in any case, was flimsy. He flourished on the benign grants of Congress’ aristocracy. The plank has now been pulled from under his feet. And he doesn’t even have a straw to clutch on to. But then when Lutyens Delhi has been kind to even its own deities?

It is due to Nehru’s failures that one third of Jammu and Kashmir is under Pakistan: Amit Shah in Lok Sabha

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It is due to Nehru’s failures that one third of Jammu and Kashmir is under Pakistan: Amit Shah in Lok Sabha

Home Minister Amit Shah today slammed the policies of Nehru during and after partition. He stated that the issue of Jammu and Kashmir is a Congress legacy and then PM Jawaharlal Nehru’s failure.


Taking a jibe at Congress MP Manish Tewari, who had claimed that situation in J&K was better under Congress government, Shah asserted that the enduring problem of Jammu and Kashmir is because of the monumental mistakes made by then PM Jawaharlal Nehru.

“One-third of Kashmir is with Pakistan. Who is responsible for that? Despite Maharaja Hari Singh signing the instrument of accession of India, who stopped our advancing forces from conquering the remaining part of the Kashmir and settled with the current LoC? Who enforced the ceasefire? It was Jawaharlal Nehru who lost a significant part of Jammu and Kashmir,” Shah said.

Shah further asserted that PM Nehru didn’t take into confidence the people of the country before taking such a momentous decision. Shah said, “He didn’t take the public into confidence. He didn’t even take then Home Minister Sardar Patel into confidence while dealing with the issue of integration of Jammu and Kashmir with the Union of India.”

Shah continued, “A similar kind of problems arose in Junagadh and Hyderabad but that were successfully resolved because they were handled by Sardar Patel, but who was tackling the issue of Kashmir? Pandit Jawaharlal Nehru. It is because of him, we lost the territory, the issue remains unsolved and hundreds and thousands of our soldiers have died and terrorism has spawned in the state.”

Manmohan Singh protests to PMO as Modi govt decides to reduce his staff size from 14 to 5

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Manmohan Singh protests to PMO as Modi govt decides to reduce his staff size from 14 to 5

Former prime minister Dr Manmohan Singh has written an angry letter to the Prime Minister’s Office and Home Minister Amit Shah after the centre followed the existing rules to turn down a request from former PM to retain his full 14-member staff.

According to the reports, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh had written to Prime Minister Narendra Modi requesting him to allow him to retain his 14-member staff. As per the rules, former PMs receive rent-free accommodation for the rest of their life, medical facilities, 14 secretarial staff, six domestic executive-class air tickets, unlimited train travel, five years of office expenses along with SPG cover for one year and free electricity and water for life.

However, after five years, the Centre can reconsider whether it wants to give further re-extension to such allowances. Following the existing provisions, the NDA government had decided to reduce the size of personal staff support to 5 from 14. The five staffers include two personal assistants, one lower division clerk and two peons.

In a letter dated May 26, the PMO had informed Singh about the government’s decision to reduce the size of his staff.

Earlier, former Prime Minister Manmohan Singh enjoyed full service of 14 staffs, which included officers of the level of director, under-secretary and deputy secretary, besides personal assistants and peons. It should be noted that the former PMs are entitled to full staff strength only for the first five years.

Interestingly, the Vajpayee government had permitted PV Narasimha Rao and Indra Kumar Gujral to expand their staff as per their need. The UPA government had returned the courtesy by allowing Atal Bihari Vajpayee to retain full staff which was later reduced to 12 after the late BJP leader expressed his willingness to cut down the staff size.

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